[2][3] In 2004 Alan Richard of Education Week wrote that the school "is the only real sign of the Briggsville community, except for a few houses and the winding highway with a mountain view.

[6] That year the majority of the members of the Two Rivers district board voted to close the Fourche Valley School.

[7] Area parents opposed the closure citing that their children had daily transportation times of three to four hours.

[7] The state supreme court argued that the proper commute times to school should be a matter for the Arkansas Legislature to examine.

The district's arena-style gymnasium, funded by a donor, had been built by 2004, and by that year it also had a new science laboratory.